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Ministry Goals: 
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To engage senior adults in the ministry of
the Kingdom of God through spiritual growth,
fellowship and service.
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To help FBC members to actively and
creatively use their talents and gifts to
use media in reaching Dothan and the world
through media.
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To keep FBC focused on serving others
through mission endeavors.
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Favorite Bible Verse: Micah 6:8 He has shown
you what is good; and what does the LORD
require of you, but to do justly, and to
love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Bob
was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He gave his
life to Jesus as
a
teenager. Bob graduated from Tupelo High School
in 1974 then attended Mississippi State
University from 1974-1978, graduating with BA in
Communications. While in college, he was very
actively involved with Baptist Student Union,
especially with international students and
served as a summer missionary in
Malaysia/Singapore in the summer of 1977. After
graduating from State, he went to Wheaton
College to study Cross-Cultural Communications,
graduating with an MA in 1981. In 1980, he
worked half a year with Miss Bertha Smith,
retired missionary from China. Miss Bertha
arrived in China right after Lottie Moon died.
After graduation from Wheaton, Bob served in a
small mission church in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a
suburb of Chicago as Associate Pastor. In 1983,
he went to Fort Worth, Texas to study at
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and
received his Master of Divinity (Theology) in
1986. While in seminary, he did an internship at
Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler working in
outreach to those in multi family housing. Upon
graduation, he met Linda Prevett in Fort Worth
and they were married August 15, 1987. In March
1988, Bob was called to FBC Dothan as Minister
with Single Adults. Within two months that,
title changed to Minister with Single Adults and
Senior Adults. In 1990, to that was added Media.
He has been working with Senior Adults and Media
since 1992. Bob has also led mission trips to
Jamaica, Russia, Guatemala, Pittsburgh, New
York, Chicago, Kentucky, New Orleans. Bob and
Linda have twins, Eric and Elizabeth, born in
1991.
Bob felt God's call into ministry while in high
school. God has led in various areas and in
different paths in ministry which have involved
preaching, leading music, directing a choir,
leading youth, church planting, missions and
eventually being here at FBC.
More about BOB:
Favorite Song: Broken and Spilled Out
Favorite Singer: Steve Green
Favorite Hymn: Day by Day
Favorite Movies: What's Up Doc (Barbara
Streisand, Ryan O'Neal), Newsiest, Spiderman,
Legend of Zorro, Pride and Prejudice (by A&E),
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Mr Blandings
Builds His Dream house (Carey Grant, Myrna Loy),
It's A Wonderful Life, The Thin Man (William
Powell, Myrna Loy), It Happened One Night (Clark
Gable, Claudette Colbert), McClintock (John
Wayne, Maureen O'Hara), The Private Eyes (Don
Knotts, Tim Conway)
Hobby: Traveling, Photography, Hiking,
Collecting Hot Sauces
Favorite Restaurant in Dothan: Acapulco or Rodeo
or La Bamba or Chili's
Favorite Restaurant in Chicago: Thai Spoon
on Wabash (a true hole in the wall place with
great chicken curry) or Giordanno's Pizza or Ed
Debevic's
Favorite Restaurant in San Antonio: Mi
Tierra
Favorite Restaurant in Tucumcari, NM:
Rubee's
Favorite Restaurant in Atlanta: Pappadeaux's
Favorite Restaurant in Seattle: Icon Grill
Favorite Restaurant in St. Augustine:
Columbia
Favorite Restaurant in Lafayette, La:
Mulate's
Favorite Restaurant in Bisbee, Az: Dot's
Diner
Favorite Restaurant in Van Horn, Tx: Chuy's
Favorite Restaurant in Havana, Fl: Nicholson
Farmhouse
Favorite Theme Park: Hershey Park
Favorite Spot for a Picnic: Great Smoky
Mountains beside a stream
Favorite National Park: Glacier National
Park
Favorite Food: Singapore Mai Fun, Chinese
dish with rice noodles, shrimp, chicken, pork
and CURRY!! or Thai Chicken Curry
Favorite Dessert: Cheese Cake at the
Kangaroo Court, San Antonio
and
Cheese Cake at Junior's in Brooklyn and
Sopapilla at Don Pablo's
Favorite Store: Circuit City!! Of course!
Favorite Hike: The Chicago Basin in the
Rocky Mountains, between Durango and Silverton
Favorite Scenic Drives: Along the Rio Grande
between Big Bend National Park and
Presidio.....Highway to the Sun in Glacier
National Park...Blue Ridge Parkway
Favorite Stage Shows: Music Man, Annie Get
Your Gun,
Phantom of the Opera
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